Cuba revisited

Ok, so I get the drift. You tap away for hours on this thing then you post a picture of your family.
Here's my offering;
Eve atop some building in Trinidad - that's Cuba !
[minolta 7000 foma 100] .
I you have not been to Cuba yet, book your tickets soon before the place is overrun by the USA. The Cuba people are just wonderful.

ill

Feeling a bit rough today so stayed in and developed a film or two. Here's the best of a bad bunch. Taken on the Retinette 1a - which seem to be the camera of choice these days- onHP5 in Aculux2.

Next

A nice day with a quick visit over to Leeds via Marsden which put me in mind of these couple of images taken with the tusty Kodak Retinette 1a on consumer neg film. The fisrst one is actually above the village towards the inevitable golf course.

I've always liked Marsden being right in the hills and load goingon in the village including a Jazz festival.

The second image shows one of the old mills that are prevelent in these parts. Some old boy I got talking to told me this place used to make karki for the troops.

Sunday

The sun is shining again! So it's out for more piccis today.
Watched 'Down by law' last night - a fantastic Jim Jarmich film in mono. Whats so funny is that the stars - Tom Waits and Roberto Benigni always just play themselves. The photography in the film was just brilliant. A "must see" I think.
Last night I was wondering how we could run a test to find out if we see colour the same as each other and have come up with nothing as yet. It's one of those things that I have been wondering about for years.
On another note, it's some months since we were in Cuba so I give you an image of Los Pinos.

Whoa!

Woke up this morning thinking about this photo that I am going to share with you. That's the sort of sad person I am. It was taken last month with my Kodak Retinette 1a - an old 35mm fixed lens affair with great performance - you just have to work out the exposures and focus your self.
The image was taken in the car with the camera fixed to the dash board and a long exposure whilst driving home from work - I wasn't driving. Film is generic colour 400asa.

The sun is shining this morning so a chance for a potter on the mtn bike along the canal bank and cycle paths in the region - armed with my camera. It's just getting too scarey to ride on the road these days - I know 6 people who have been killed on the road in the last 3 months whilst riding their bikes- and that's just too many by far. A need for government - local and national - to get some proper cycle paths sorted in towns and cities is so important. Proper cycle paths too - not just painted lines on the road but seperate from the road if possible. The benefits of this would be manifold - increased health of the population, lower congestion, lower Co2 emissions and a better environment all round. Power to SUSTRANS I say!

The first entry

So, here it is, the first entry to this diary of photographic meanderings.
been a hard week at work so i am posting a photo i shot last weekend on one of my old folders - a Voigtlander folder from the 1930s.
I have been using HP5 as of late and souping it in Aculux2 - and the results please me.

It's taken in Saddleworth looking up to Isle of Skye [that's the hill of that name, not the island]